An anecdote for us to reflect on.

Once, a patient, after a session, filed a complaint with the office administration claiming he hadn't felt anything. However, after the session ended, and before filing the complaint, he told me he felt like I was bumping into the treatment table several times. The funny thing is, I told him that never happened, because I wasn't hitting the table. Despite this, he filed the complaint anyway. My first feeling when the place conveyed this to me was discomfort, but I quickly realized that this was the patient's feeling, not mine, and I began to reflect with a smile, writing the following.

Consider this: if someone tells me, "Javi, you snore a lot when you sleep," and I say, "That's a lie, because I've stayed awake to check"... Isn't that funny? I know it sounds ironic, but suppose I'm serious. Well, the same thing happens in a session with a person who exhibits high resistance. It's impossible to expect us to understand everything that happened during a session when we've entered a trance state. Trance occurs as a lapse, a leap in time and space, and this can be confusing upon returning to wakefulness. A highly anxious person is likely to deny their experience; in fact, they may exhibit incoherence, as happened in this particular situation, where they confirmed a perceptual reality that wasn't actually occurring, yet still claimed to feel nothing. Of course, they think they felt nothing, but the goal isn't to feel; it's for the work to be effective, and it was, only the patient doesn't realize it. The important thing when having a session isn't to remember the experience of the moment, but rather, over time, to begin detecting response patterns that we didn't see before.

Someone who wants to have a session is supposed to be predisposed to do so; however, the truth is that if there is a lot of resistance and anxiety, it's likely that another part of the person is already putting up barriers—dissociation.

If you're going to Gap Hypnosis therapy to experience something, there are many other things you can do, like go to an amusement park. It's true that some people experience psychedelic effects during the session, but with a calcified pineal gland and an atrophied vagus nerve, you'll probably only feel relaxation and confusion. A serious session is the beginning of a process of deprogramming and neuromodulation. Just the beginning.

My considering myself a responsible and committed professional doesn't mean I'm an all-powerful god or a guru, but it does mean that I try to give my all, and most importantly, that I understand what I'm doing and I know what's happening. If I tell you the therapy was effective, it's because it was. Talking about magical results isn't part of my approach.

Without expectations, there is no self-sabotage.